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What crisis? British Journal of Religious Education (IF 1.131) Pub Date : 2024-03-28 Julian Stern
Published in British Journal of Religious Education (Vol. 46, No. 2, 2024)
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Prospective Islamic Theologians and Islamic religious teachers in Germany: between fundamentalism and reform orientation British Journal of Religious Education (IF 1.131) Pub Date : 2024-03-22 Abdulkerim Şenel, Sarah Demmrich
This study represents the first German-wide investigation of Islamic theology and religious education students. We examined how these prospective multipliers approach Islam in a reform-oriented man...
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Teaching religious stories in lower primary school: a Norwegian case study of 8-year-old students’ perception of the Moses narratives British Journal of Religious Education (IF 1.131) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Kari Krogstad
This study investigates the instruction of religious stories of Judaism at the primary school level in a Norwegian educational setting, with a focus on the perceptions of 8-year-old students regard...
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Religious women: a feminist ethics of care, caring and care-giving British Journal of Religious Education (IF 1.131) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Anne Keary
The role of nuns in the Catholic church as carers and caregivers has been given scant attention. This paper narrates a historical contextualised tale of an ethic of care, caregiving and caring. Int...
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A methodological turn in RE British Journal of Religious Education (IF 1.131) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Knut Aukland
In this article, I make the case for a methodological turn in the field based on the growing interest in a methodology-oriented RE. That is, the idea that we should make academic methods and method...
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Hardened hearts and cries for freedom: interpreting biblical narratives in a pandemic British Journal of Religious Education (IF 1.131) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Mark K. Hillis
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia has exposed social fault-lines and inequities not often recognised in such an affluent country. This study explores the relevance of Bible stories a...
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Religious tolerance in Saudi Arabia’s middle school Islamic studies British Journal of Religious Education (IF 1.131) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Ahmad Aseery, Mousa Alfaifi
Globalisation has increasingly exposed citizens in religious-majority countries to diverse beliefs, opinions and practices. Teaching Islamic religious tolerance, particularly in the Middle East, is...
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Patterns of parental involvement in schools of religious communities. A systematic review British Journal of Religious Education (IF 1.131) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Gabriella Pusztai, Zsuzsanna Demeter-Karászi, Éva Csonka, Ádám Bencze, Enikő Major, Edit Szilágyi, Katinka Bacskai
Research on family involvement has revealed its positive impact on children’s academic and nonacademic achievement over the past two decades. However, little is known about parental involvement in ...
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Drinking from our own wells in Ghana: interfaith education, civic engagement, and resisting the anti-LGBT agenda British Journal of Religious Education (IF 1.131) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 John P. Falcone, Davis Mac-Iyalla
This article explores how a public written response to anti-LGBT+ legislation in Ghana also functioned as a religious educational intervention to shape future visions of tolerant pluralism in Ghana...
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Pedagogy and purpose British Journal of Religious Education (IF 1.131) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 David Lundie
Published in British Journal of Religious Education (Vol. 46, No. 1, 2024)
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Perceptions of science, religion and spirituality in high school students: an empirical approach British Journal of Religious Education (IF 1.131) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Lluis Oviedo, Lorenzo Magarelli, Piotr Roszak, Josefa Torralba Albaladej, Berenika Seryczyńska, Valentina Baldas, Jan Wółkowski
Many questions arise regarding the compatibility between scientific and religious education. While some voices have pointed to issues that stem from a traditional model in which science becomes a f...
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The Christian concept of forgiveness and religious education facing the problem of individualism British Journal of Religious Education (IF 1.131) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Jarosław Horowski
The analysis undertaken in this article pertain to the challenge faced by education, which consists of overcoming the negative aspects of contemporary individualism, such as the building of instrum...
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A case study of primary students’ perspectives of engagement in interreligious learning and teaching: a community of learners British Journal of Religious Education (IF 1.131) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Toni Foley, Maree DinanThompson, Nerina Caltabiano
This case study explores the perceptions of students regarding their engagement in interreligious learning and teaching in one Australian Catholic Primary School. The study probes the learners’ und...
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Knowledge in a religion and worldviews approach in English schools British Journal of Religious Education (IF 1.131) Pub Date : 2024-01-21 Trevor Cooling
The Final Report of the Commission on Religious Education (CoRE) in England published in 2018 advocated what it called a religion and worldviews approach. One of the significant questions it provok...
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Developing intercultural competences of Polish religion teachers in the context of refugees from Ukraine: in theory and practice British Journal of Religious Education (IF 1.131) Pub Date : 2024-01-21 Cichosz Wojciech, Zellma Anna, Buchta Roman
The aim of this article is to seek an answer to the following question: Do religion teachers have the opportunity to learn and develop skills in the areas necessary to support refugees from Ukraine...
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Booming internet use during pandemic on Indonesian students’ faith: threat and opportunity for sustainable religious education and religious inherency formation British Journal of Religious Education (IF 1.131) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Pratiwi Tri Utami
Focusing on Indonesia’s case, this research discusses how booming internet use impacts students’ faith, functioning as both threat and opportunity concerning students’ religious inherency and susta...
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Tensions between inclusion and change in worldview education: can Joe F. Kincheloe’s bricolage help teachers navigate them? British Journal of Religious Education (IF 1.131) Pub Date : 2024-01-08 Øyvind Soltun Andreassen, Jonathan Doney
This paper delineates tensions that arguably are inherent to integrative Worldview Education in plural societies, due to the subject’s dual commitment to imperatives of inclusion and change. The im...
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Between belief and disbelief, between religion and secularity: introducing non-doxasticism and semi-secularity in worldview education British Journal of Religious Education (IF 1.131) Pub Date : 2023-12-16 Francis Jonbäck, Carl-Johan Palmqvist
In order to include all outlooks and perspectives on the world prevalent in contemporary society, countries like Sweden have replaced traditional religious education with worldview education. Howev...
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Pandemic impact as worldview and paradigm clashes between science and society and between science and politics. Is there a role for pedagogy of science and worldview education? British Journal of Religious Education (IF 1.131) Pub Date : 2023-12-11 Siebren Miedema
The worldwide impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has been enormous. It has affected the justification of the contributions from academia, and resulted in rapid spreading of misinformation and conspira...
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The professional identity of elementary school rabbis in the national-religious education system in Israel British Journal of Religious Education (IF 1.131) Pub Date : 2023-12-06 Ariel Levin, Daniel Dashevsky, Eli Kohn
The current study delves into the professional identity of elementary school rabbis within the national-religious education system in Israel, focusing on the perspectives of the rabbis themselves a...
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Female role models in school religious education and their perception by female students in the final years of secondary school British Journal of Religious Education (IF 1.131) Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Magdalena Maciejewska, Joanna Cukras-Stelągowska, Aneta Rayzacher-Majewska
The present article discusses female students’ perception of the female role models introduced to them during religious education classes in Poland. Besides imparting knowledge, the teaching of rel...
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Myths and misunderstandings: how religious Education contributed to vaccine hesitancy among Nigerian Christian students British Journal of Religious Education (IF 1.131) Pub Date : 2023-11-18 Favour C. Uroko, George C. Nche
The aim of this study was to explore: 1) how religious education (RE) contributed to COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among Christian students in Nigeria; and 2) how RE could be used to counter vaccine h...
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Maktab education: a community imperative and the making of Muslim ambassadors British Journal of Religious Education (IF 1.131) Pub Date : 2023-11-09 Imran Mogra
Contemporary discourse on Muslims and Islam has included a reassessment of traditional educational institutions; makātib and madāris. Hitherto, understanding insider aspirations and anxieties appea...
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Rebuilding ministry in UK state schools: investigating how pandemic disruption may effect positive change British Journal of Religious Education (IF 1.131) Pub Date : 2023-10-25 Sarah E Holmes, David Howell
This exploratory study investigated the disruption to schools ministry caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Perspectives of church leaders, Christian parents, Christian teachers and organisations invol...
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Experiences of teachers in U.S. Catholic schools during the COVID-19 pandemic era British Journal of Religious Education (IF 1.131) Pub Date : 2023-10-05 Heidi L. Hallman
This article discusses how both Catholic schools and the teachers within them illustrated a commitment to living out tenets of the common good as a result of Catholic schools’ choices during the CO...
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Enhancing learners’ motivation and engagement in religious education classes at elementary levels British Journal of Religious Education (IF 1.131) Pub Date : 2023-09-15 Ahmad Aseery
Teachers in contemporary elementary classrooms are adopting diverse teaching strategies to encourage learners’ motivation and engagement. This study aimed to identify ways of enhancing students’ mo...
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Pedagogy of tolerance and violence prevention in the Arab world British Journal of Religious Education (IF 1.131) Pub Date : 2023-09-05 Ahmed Ali Alhazmi
This article is a conceptual examination of tolerance and pedagogy with regard to the prevention of violence in the Arab world from a critical theory perspective. Tolerance is a socially and cultur...
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Religious education and worldview theory British Journal of Religious Education (IF 1.131) Pub Date : 2023-09-04 Andrew Wright, Elina Wright
This paper contributes to the ongoing debate surrounding the place of ‘worldviews’ in Religious Education. We examine the British Commission on Religious Education proposal that the subject be rena...
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The teachers’ discourse on religion and morality British Journal of Religious Education (IF 1.131) Pub Date : 2023-08-29 Vishakha Kumar
This paper presents a study which was done to investigate schoolteachers’ discourse on morality. The teachers used three dimensions to construct and present their discourse on morality: food, relig...
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Critique in Religious Education British Journal of Religious Education (IF 1.131) Pub Date : 2023-08-10 Yonah Hisbon Matemba
Published in British Journal of Religious Education (Vol. 45, No. 4, 2023)
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RE teachers and the challenges of digital didactics during the coronavirus pandemic in Poland British Journal of Religious Education (IF 1.131) Pub Date : 2023-07-12 Beata Bilicka, Elżbieta Osewska, Józef Stala
ABSTRACT The period of the coronavirus pandemic (SARS-CoV-2), which hit Poland in early March 2020, has become a great challenge for the whole education sector. The limitations in the functioning of schools, imposed on all teachers, including RE teachers, created the immediate need to adapt to new conditions and start remote teaching. Some of these teachers have never worked in such a way before, have
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COVID-19 and religious education reimagined: discovering a reflective space through Hannah Arendt’s concept of thinking British Journal of Religious Education (IF 1.131) Pub Date : 2023-07-11 Nopparat Ruankool
ABSTRACT Following the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic and its rapid spread around the world, the normality of people’s lives was disrupted. Education was not immune from this. In many countries, to limit the spread of the infection, students were required by the government to study remotely. This social isolation in a limited space generated concerns among educators about the quality of learning
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The legacy of community cohesion: exploring the teacher agency of beginner RE teachers British Journal of Religious Education (IF 1.131) Pub Date : 2023-06-08 Sjay Patterson-Craven
ABSTRACT This article explores the teacher agency of five beginner RE teachers undertaking their 1-year probationary period (Post-Initial Teacher Education)Footnote11. Participants in this research undertook a 1-year induction as Newly Qualified Teachers (NQTs). Since September 2021 this has been replaced by the 2-year ‘Early Career Teacher’ induction in all English schools.View all notes in five Secondary
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Design of Islamic Religious Education: Purposes, alignment of curriculum components and contexts British Journal of Religious Education (IF 1.131) Pub Date : 2023-06-02 Suhayib, M. F. Ansyari
ABSTRACT This paper presents evidence of the design of Islamic Religious Education (IRE) by evaluating the purpose, the interconnectedness of curricular components and its contextual levels through a conceptual framework for studying the design of IRE. Relying on document analyses, the findings indicate a gap between the intended and teachers’ designs of IRE. The threefold purpose of IRE, ta’leem,
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A reconstruction of the international standards of religious education of juveniles in correctional institutions British Journal of Religious Education (IF 1.131) Pub Date : 2023-05-15 Olga Sitarz, Anna Jaworska-Wieloch, Jakub Hanc
ABSTRACT In this article, we reconstruct the international standards relating to the religious education of a juvenile placed in an isolation centre in connection with the commission of a prohibited act. From a human rights perspective, this is a particularly complicated situation because there is a competition between parties that (at least potentially) have the right to decide on such education.
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Ineffable education, the uncommunicable and the uncommunicated British Journal of Religious Education (IF 1.131) Pub Date : 2023-05-11 Małgorzata Wałejko, Julian Stern
ABSTRACT This article is a philosophical and theological exploration of the role of the ineffable as one of the central features that religion and religious traditions can bring to schooling. The ineffable is described as itself related to the uncommunicable and the uncommunicated – in all of life and specifically in schools. Drawing especially on Anglophone and Polish sources, the conclusion of the
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RE teachers and the shifting landscape of values education in England British Journal of Religious Education (IF 1.131) Pub Date : 2023-04-28 Jane McDonnell
ABSTRACT The promotion of fundamental British values (FBV) and character education in schools can be seen as part of a new policy landscape of values education in England, with significant implications for Religious Education (RE). Research on these policies has tended to emphasise their securitising and constraining effects. This paper shifts attention to teachers’ creative responses to this new policy
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Beyond knowledge-centred versus student-centred RE British Journal of Religious Education (IF 1.131) Pub Date : 2023-04-14 Julian Stern
Published in British Journal of Religious Education (Vol. 45, No. 3, 2023)
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Teachers’ perspectives on ethics education – expressed as opportunities and challenges British Journal of Religious Education (IF 1.131) Pub Date : 2023-04-14 Annika Lilja, Olof Franck, Christina Osbeck, Karin Sporre, David Lifmark, Anna Lyngfelt
ABSTRACT In Sweden, ethics education occupies a prominent position in the curriculum, both in the general, introductory sections and as a part of the subject religious education. The aim of this article is to investigate teachers’ insights regarding ethics education and to contribute knowledge about opportunities and challenges with ethics education, by analysing interviews with ten teachers. Five
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Dialogues between Ivan and Smerdyakov after the murder of their father from The Brothers Karamazov: their educational implications British Journal of Religious Education (IF 1.131) Pub Date : 2023-03-20 Eisuke Saito
ABSTRACT In the modern world, alienation and marginalisation are serious issues that make people doubt the existence of God. Due to the development of science and technology, which allows humans more space to act as they desire, society has become even more secularised. Fyodor Dostoevsky foresaw and struggled with these problems – as represented in his literary masterpieces, such as The Brothers Karamazov
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The possibility of a truth-beyond-being and givenness: engaging the work of Jean-Luc Marion in the hermeneutics of religious education British Journal of Religious Education (IF 1.131) Pub Date : 2023-03-02 David Kennedy
ABSTRACT This paper argues that an enclosed hermeneutical circle is evident at the centre of modern religious education as a result of its rootedness in the romantic hermeneutical tradition. It argues that modern religious education carries an implicit text-based hermeneutical orientation. It contends that such a hermeneutical approach is limited in terms of its ability to engage with persons’ encounter
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The lived religious beliefs and experiences of English Hindu teenagers at home and at school British Journal of Religious Education (IF 1.131) Pub Date : 2023-03-01 Joseph Chadwin
ABSTRACT This paper constitutes a study of the lived religious identity and practice of Hindu teenagers in the UK. More specifically, utilising an ethnographic approach designed to give voice to what is academically an extremely unrepresented religious community, this is a study of how Hindu teenagers in the UK experience their religion at home and at school. After outlining the contrast between these
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In and out of focus: RE horizons British Journal of Religious Education (IF 1.131) Pub Date : 2023-02-12 Julian Stern
Published in British Journal of Religious Education (Vol. 45, No. 2, 2023)
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Addressing controversial issues in religious education by enacting and rehearsing democracy through Forum Theatre: student perspectives British Journal of Religious Education (IF 1.131) Pub Date : 2023-02-13 Aina Hammer
ABSTRACT Both policy and research emphasise the significant role that addressing controversial issues plays in democracy and citizenship education. However, less work has examined what forms of democratic learning are promoted when controversial issues are addressed in specific ways. This article is rooted in action research and, through an analysis of student perspectives, explores the potential for
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Religious education and culture in Zambia British Journal of Religious Education (IF 1.131) Pub Date : 2023-02-06 Brendan Carmody
ABSTRACT Religious Education in Zambia and perhaps more widely needs to become more aware of how religion is expressed culturally. ‘Learning about’ religion or religions, which is a common practice, has limited value. It needs a ‘learning from’ dimension. It will be contended that this ‘learning from’ has been extensively neglected in Zambia. A key reason for this is Religious Education’s embodiment
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Buddhism in Five Minutes (Religion in Five Minutes) British Journal of Religious Education (IF 1.131) Pub Date : 2023-01-22 Sarah Hall
Published in British Journal of Religious Education (Vol. 45, No. 2, 2023)
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An Interpretation of Religion: Human Responses to the Transcendent British Journal of Religious Education (IF 1.131) Pub Date : 2022-11-28 Geoff Teece
Published in British Journal of Religious Education (Vol. 45, No. 2, 2023)
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The Routledge International Handbook of the Place of Religion in Early Childhood Education and Care British Journal of Religious Education (IF 1.131) Pub Date : 2022-11-22 Terence J. Lovat
Published in British Journal of Religious Education (Vol. 45, No. 2, 2023)
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Truth as Aletheia in the Godly Play approach to religious education: a phenomenological reflection British Journal of Religious Education (IF 1.131) Pub Date : 2022-11-18 Brendan Hyde
ABSTRACT This paper explores phenomenologically the way in which Godly Play, as an approach to religious education with young children devised by Jerome Berryman, provides an experience of truth as disclosure and openness – as a constant interplay between showing and hiding – though an exploration of Heidegger’s (and to a lesser extent, Gadamer’s) understanding of truth as aletheia. It applies this
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Little theologians: children, culture, and the making of theological meaning British Journal of Religious Education (IF 1.131) Pub Date : 2022-11-16 Ryan Parker
Published in British Journal of Religious Education (Vol. 45, No. 2, 2023)
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The convivial concealment of religion: Navigating religious diversity during meals in early childhood education – A Norwegian case British Journal of Religious Education (IF 1.131) Pub Date : 2022-11-12 Ragnhild Laird Iversen
ABSTRACT How are religiously based eating regulations navigated in kindergarten, and how does the pedagogical context influence the children’s understandings of religion and nationality? This article builds on a qualitative case study involving observations and group interviews with children in a Norwegian kindergarten. At mealtimes, some children ate different food than their peers due to religiously
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Nobody stands nowhere? British Journal of Religious Education (IF 1.131) Pub Date : 2022-11-06 David Lundie
Published in British Journal of Religious Education (Vol. 45, No. 1, 2023)
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Religious education in French private schools: Categories, conflations, and inequities British Journal of Religious Education (IF 1.131) Pub Date : 2022-10-10 Carol Ferrara
ABSTRACT France’s secular political culture, Catholic heritage, and tumultuous relationship with Islam have had a significant impact on 21st-century interpretations, perceptions, and politicisations of religious education in French society. Since religious education is relegated to the French private school system, it is decentralised, complex, and vastly plural – especially compared to France’s hyper-centralised
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The model of religious education in today’s secular and multicultural societies – Post-Confessional Inclusivist Religious Education (PCIRE) British Journal of Religious Education (IF 1.131) Pub Date : 2022-09-29 Muhammet Fatih Genç, A. H. M. Ershad Uddin
ABSTRACT ”Pularity” has emerged due to the rapid communication and interaction of different religions, languages, and cultural elements with the effect of globalization, modernization, secularization, and the necessity to live together. It has affected not only the politics of countries but also education and imposed new duties and responsibilities on it. In particular, the coexistence of individuals
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An educational opportunity for (re)-scripting gender justice as an imperative of faith and citizenship: a South African case British Journal of Religious Education (IF 1.131) Pub Date : 2022-09-12 Nuraan Davids
ABSTRACT The centring of Muslim women in Islam resides in an intertwining historico-politico -theological narrative of gender reform, first promulgated in a seventh century revelation of the Qur’an. Significantly, the gains derived by the women of Islam’s first community, have become lost in the dominance of contemporary androcentric-patriarchal interpretations. The argument advanced by this paper
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National, international and supranational perspectives on religious education, law and the judiciary: past, present and future British Journal of Religious Education (IF 1.131) Pub Date : 2022-08-26 Nigel Fancourt, Abdurrahman Hendek
Published in British Journal of Religious Education (Vol. 44, No. 4, 2022)
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A world of difference British Journal of Religious Education (IF 1.131) Pub Date : 2022-08-23 Julian Stern
Published in British Journal of Religious Education (Vol. 44, No. 3, 2022)
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Perceptions of pre-service and graduate early childhood and primary teachers regarding their confidence in teaching Religious Education in Catholic primary schools British Journal of Religious Education (IF 1.131) Pub Date : 2022-08-05 Sharon Law-Davis, John Topliss
ABSTRACT This research reports an exploratory study of 22 pre-service teachers involved in the Religious Education courses offered by The University of Notre Dame Australia, as part of the university’s accreditation to teach religious education. The study examined the influence of key factors on how confident these pre-service teachers perceived themselves to be to engage with the necessary knowledge
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The making of Sikh student: Ethnographic study of a minority school in Delhi British Journal of Religious Education (IF 1.131) Pub Date : 2022-06-21 Yamini Agarwal
ABSTRACT Religious minority schools are seen to take on the task of transmitting the normative image of a community, its ideology and culture. Through pedagogy and daily routine practices, schools seek to shape students’ ideas of a religion and ways in which it is to be performed. This paper, based on ethnography of a Sikh school in Delhi, explores such schooling spaces and practices that attempt to
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Privileged and non-privileged agencies – education about, into and with social justice in religious education classrooms British Journal of Religious Education (IF 1.131) Pub Date : 2022-06-07 Anuleena Kimanen
ABSTRACT When social justice education is conducted in religious education (RE) classes, it can take the forms of education about (concepts and facts), into (enhancing commitment), with (negotiating practices) and through (pupil-led action) social justice. The first three approaches were used in seven RE lessons observed in urban Finnish lower secondary schools. The aim was to find out how different